Interesting.

I do like the new perspective but hope that some fast paced hack and slash elements are still included.

@KiriharaZro: Well I mean he still has some Godly powers so he probably ages slower than humans. So yeah many years for him could be a millennia...give or take a century or two.

@arcticpilgrim: Thanks. I was watching dualshock's youtube broadcast, the game director just confirmed it was the same Kratos.

Sorry to burst some of your bubbles but this info by the director Cory Barlog on a youtube live -stream:

• The gameplay is being re-imagined, but the storyline is being continued within Norse Mythology.
• We play as Kratos for the whole game.
• The game is set “many years after God of War 3
• It’s a much more intimate and player-controlled experience.
• The accessibility should be the same as previous game, but the gameplay is totally different.
• It’s a big game, but it’s not an open world.
• “More to come” on more characters that will be included in the game.
• The game will be released “soon,” not this year.
• Quicktime Events won’t be included in the same way they were in the previous games.

@Mogan: If you watch the gameplay footage closely you see that his moveset has greek names. Like in the troll fight, you got a notification to use the move (a quick time event) Spartan rage.

@jomac3db1: His "Father" that happens to look just like Kratos and uses a moveset with greeco-roman names?

@kadaverhagga: Why couldn't we get both?

@jomac3db1: If you watch the gameplay you'd see that Kratos has a move called Spartan rage...

This doesn't necessarily have to be a different Kratos. Did everyone forget that the end of God of War 3 alluded to the possibility of Kratos being alive? Who's to say that with the ancient Greek Gods destroyed and the world set ablaze, a new set of Gods couldn't have arisen from the void to fill the power vacuum? Heck these Gods could've even been here this whole time but unable to do anything because of Greek sovereignty. So maybe this takes place years later, with an aged Kratos who traveled the world and settled with a Nordic tribe.